Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation /
This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas (Unites States and Mexico), Au...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Σειρά: | Water Resources Development and Management,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction
- The Murray-Darling Basin: climate change, infrastructure and water
- Climate change adaptation, water infrastructure development, and responsive governance in the Himalayas: The case study of Nepal’s Koshi River basin
- Building Pakistan´s resilience to natural disasters in the Indus River Basin
- Yellow River: Re-operation of Infrastructure system to increase Resilience to Climate Variability and Changes
- Seyhan Dam, Turkey
- Contributions of Aswan High Dam in Alleviating the Impacts of Climate Fluctuations and Change
- Greater security with less water: Sterkfontein Dam’s contribution to systemic resilience
- The Durance-Verdon river basin in France: the role of infrastructures and governance for adaptation to climate change
- Enhancing governance of climate resilience in the Arid Americas: A multi-country comparative assessment of the role of reservoirs in adaptive management
- Mitigation measures for high-risk dams, considering changes in their climate and basin in Mexico
- Sobradinho Reservoir.
